Siberian Sand Plover

Anarhynchus mongolus (Pallas, 1776)

52 cmWingspan

This stout, long-legged sand plover has a chestnut breast and nape and a black mask in the male during the breeding season.

Looks like Greater Sand Plover

Endangered

How to identify

Field marks

Male has a chestnut breast and nape in the breeding season
Male has a black mask in the breeding season
Gray back and white belly
Dark legs and feet; black bill

Male, female and young

The female is duller; winter plumage and juveniles lack chestnut, with only a slight reddish-brown tinge on the head.

Voice

A hard trill in flight.

Similar species

Greater Sand Plover

Siberian Sand Plover is slightly smaller, with a usually shorter bill and usually darker legs and feet (black to gray); Greater Sand Plover has paler legs and feet (gray to pale yellow).

Where and when it's recorded

No records at the public birding hotspots we track. It may be rare, remote, or its locations protected.

Questions

Where does the Siberian Sand Plover live?

Its breeding range: Palearctic: eastern Russia (southern, southeastern Siberia).

Is the Siberian Sand Plover endangered?

The IUCN Red List classifies the Siberian Sand Plover as Endangered.

What family is the Siberian Sand Plover in?

It belongs to the family Plovers (Charadriidae), order Charadriiformes.

At a glance

Wingspan: 52 cm
Conservation: Endangered

Range

Palearctic: eastern Russia (southern, southeastern Siberia)

Breeding range, IOC World Bird List 15.2

Subspecies · 1

Anarhynchus mongolus mongolus Sea of Okhotsk to Ussuriland (se Siberia) | non-breeding: coastal Taiwan (China), Vietnam to New Guinea region and Australia (except s and Tasmania)